Nate’s story on high-stakes palm-oil negotiations landed him the Food Reporting nomination. The article explores the human side of the activists and CEOs working towards a major agreement to stop rainforest deforestation. Or, as Nate so aptly put it, “This is a story about how change happens. It happens for big reasons: economic shifts, political winds, technological revolutions. But it also happens for small reasons: individual people making very personal choices.” It was a wonderfully crafted piece of reporting, and we couldn’t be prouder that it ran on Grist.